Egyptian Joan of Arc

Egyptian Jeanne dArc is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation in post postrevolutionary Egypt Beginning with the return journey to Cairo of a filmmaker long absent from her own country the film weaves a series of intimate portraits composed of interviews poetic voiceover and dance exploring themes of oppression guilt and faith with Egyptian women many of them artists Reflecting on Carl Theodor Dreyers 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc in which the female figure is martyred by the patriarchal forces surrounding her Jeanne is a contemporary commentary that melds documentary and dance with poetic storytelling and myth to arrive at the core of the filmmakers enquiries into the circumstances of women in Egypt today